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Sometimes the champion ideas travel from gathering successful the middle.
Bill Lawrence, the creator of Scrubs and co-creator of Ted Lasso, yet enactment pen to insubstantial connected a long-gestating thought for his upcoming bid Shrinking, premiering Jan. 27 connected Apple TV+.
"I ever had, successful the backmost of my head," Bill explained successful an exclusive E! News video, "writing a amusement astir a doc oregon a therapist that was benignant of dealing with grief."
As it turns out, Ted Lasso prima and writer Brett Goldstein had been playing astir with thing similar.
"I had an thought that was the very, precise acheronian mentation of what this amusement is," Brett revealed. "[Bill] said, ‘Why don't we enactment these together?'"
And thus, Shrinking was born!
We'd archer you astir the amusement ourselves, but we'll let Jason Segel fill you successful connected the communicative astir his therapist quality Jimmy Laird.
"You conscionable Jimmy, truly, astatine stone bottommost grieving the nonaccomplishment of his wife," Jason said. "Things scope a boiling constituent and helium decides to commencement telling patients precisely what helium thinks."
As seen successful the video, a mates of Jimmy's patients are played by Saturday Night Live's Heidi Gardner and Deadly Class star Luke Tennie. In the lawsuit of Luke, who plays Sean, Jimmy inspires him to instrumentality a boxing people to enactment retired immoderate of his frustration.
Hey, immoderate helps!
Jimmy's travel is surely not without its roadworthy bumps, arsenic Jason explained, "We ticker Jimmy, clumsily, fig retired however to rebuild."
Ultimately, though, the squad down Shrinking hopes Jimmy's communicative tin beryllium a root of inspiration. "By helping others," Jason said astir the character's way of reconstruction, "we tin someway heal ourselves."
The bid besides stars Harrison Ford—in conscionable his 2nd regular TV relation ever aft the Yellowstone prequel series 1923—Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Bill Lawrence's woman Christa Miller.
Shrinking premieres Jan. 27 connected Apple TV+.
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